"Paradise Is Mine" is a song by American experimental rock band Swans, released through Young God Records on March 22, 2023, as the lead single for their sixteenth studio album The Beggar (2023).
It was the first new music from the band since their previous album Leaving Meaning (2019) over three years prior, excluding the limited-release demo tape Is There Really A Mind?
An acoustic rendition of the then-unfinished song, recorded by band leader Michael Gira alone at his home studio, appeared as the first track on the demo album Is There Really A Mind?
Beats Per Minute described the "spiritual and surreal" track as having a "patient, foreboding build up" that also incorporates "weird wind instrumentation", while Consequence summarized it as "a nine-minute experimental rock epic featuring droning vocals from Gira as he ponders our very existence".
[2][3] The track is further characterized as "naggingly hypnotic" and "hauntingly seismic" by The Guardian and Louder Than War, respectively, and is also recounted by AllMusic as "a steady crawl that gradually gains layers of swooping background vocals and slightly more dissonant guitar patterns".